12 rare one-horned rhinos killed by floods in India.
NEW DELHI - At least 12 one-horned rhinos, a threatened species, have died as a result of flooding in a national park in north-eastern India, park officials said on Sunday .
The sprawling 430-square-kilometre park is a Unesco World Heritage site and home to two-thirds of the world's population of the Rhinoceros Unicornis - more commonly known as the Indian rhinoceros.The recent floods affected about 90 per cent of the park area, forcing the animals to flee to higher ground.
Most of them drowned, while some were hit by vehicles as they crossed a highway that runs through the park to move to the Karbi Anglong hills.Though the floodwaters have started receding, about 60 per cent of the park is still flooded.
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